Eight decades of rumbling engines, two-wheel travel, exhaust smoke, and total badassery. Gloria Tramontin Struck has been blazing trails in the world of motorcycles since 1940 as one of the original members of the Motor Maids.

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Who is that? The princess Elizabeth (yes, now Queen) riding a motorcycle in a 1941 issue of The Motor Cycle magazine. The Queen is a motolady!

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Female dispatch rider getting ready to mount her moto. (United Kingdom, 1941)

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Betty Carstairs riding her motorcycle in Nassau, the Bahamas (1941). Betty (1900–1993) was a wealthy British power boat racer known for her speed and her eccentric lifestyle.

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